The NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies (V-NYI #10)

Host Institution: The NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies
Website: https://nyispb.org/v-nyi-10-program/ling/

Dates: 10-Jul-2025 - 25-Jul-2025
Location: The Virtual Sky, ----------------

Minimum Education Level: Undergraduate or above

Focus: The NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive and Linguistic Study is an interdisciplinary institute focusing on theoretical linguistics, cognitive science, and critical cultural studies. V-NYI is the virtual, global version of NYI, now entering its 10th session this summer
• V-NYI #10 is open to students, artists, scholars and all curious minds, from all backgrounds and countries, interested in comparative and formal approaches to theoretical linguistics as well as race, ethnicity, trauma, media, and decolonial studies.
• Participants create their own study program from seminars in the following fields:
- Theoretical Linguistics and Cognitive Science
- Critical Cultural Studies
- Interactive Workshops

Description:

Primary focus is on Theoretical Linguistics (Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Language Acquisition and Change, ), (NYI also has an extensive program in Critical Cultural Studies)

• Summer 2025 Theoretical Linguistics Faculty and Lecturers:
Mаša Bešlin (Georgetown University)
Rajesh Bhatt (UMass, Amherst)
Sigríður Björnsdóttir (University of Konstanz)
Kenyon Branon, Jéssica Mendes, Zahra Mirrazi, Hedde Zeijlstra (Georg-August-University, Göttingen)
Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics & Centre of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon)
Maria Esipova (Bar-Ilan University)
Noam Faust (Université Paris 8, CNRS SFL)
Kyle Gorman (City University of New York)
Nick Huanga (National University of Singapore)
Laura Kalin (Princeton University)
Jonah Katz, Kie Zuraw (UCLA)
Filipe Hisao Kobyashi, Suzanne Wurmbrand (Paris Lodron University Salzburg)
Chit-Fung Lawrence Lam, (University of Manchester)
Magdalena Lohninger, (University of Vienna)
Nerea Madariaga (University of the Basque Country)
Tom Meadows (University of Geneva)
Heather Newell (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Roumyana Pancheva (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Jonathan Rawski (San José State University)
Charles Reiss (Concordia University)
Ur Shlonsky (University of Geneva)
Jenny Singleton (Stony Brook University)
Adam Szczegielniak (University of Gdansk)
Shanti Ulfsbjorninn (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Sandra Villata (University of Enna Kore)
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• V-NYI #10 Linguistics / Cognitive Studies Courses:
- Introduction to Generative Syntax (Bešlin)
- Introduction to Morphology (Kalin)
- Introduction to Formal Semantics (Mendes & Mirrazi)
- Introduction to LFG (Lam)
- Introduction to Syllable Structure (Scheer)
- Introduction to Experimental Syntax (Huang & Villata)
- Learnability & Linguistic Theory (Rawski)
• Advanced and topics courses:
- Formal Approaches to Morphosyntactic Change (Madariaga)
- Syntax 2 (den Dikken)
- Intonation and Meaning (Esipova)
- Conditionals (Bhatt & Pancheva)
- The dynamic processes in language: A view from L1, L2 acquisition and change (Björnsdóttir)
- The Life Cycle of Phonological Processes: Principles and Case Studies (Iosad)
- Logical Phonology (Gorman & Reiss)
- Issues in non-concatenative Morpho-Phonology (Faust & Ulfsbjornin)
- Weird Types of Movement (Lohninger and Meadows)
- Head movement: Its Nature, Consequ3nces and Effects
-The Morphology, Syntax and Semantics of Fake Phi-features in Pronouns (Kobayashi & Wurmbrand)
- Puzzles in Syntax (Shlonsky & Szczegielniak)
- Meter, Rhythm, and Grouping in Textsetting and Beyond
• See course descriptions here: https://nyispb.org/vnyi10/VNYILing/

Tuition: $95

Financial Aid Applications accepted until 15-Jun-2025

Mini-grants available on. needs-only basis

Financial Aid Instructions:
Requests for mini-grants are processed together with registration forms

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
Morphology
Phonology
Semantics
Syntax

Registration: 15-Apr-2025 to 30-Jun-2025

Contact Person: V-NYI # 10 John F Bailyn
Email: [email protected]

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Registration Instructions:
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